Seachem Flourish Trace Elements 500ml

I use a little less than half recommended bottle dosage every day of all seachem ferts (rotate days between trace and flourish complete). Also use online co2 calculator and use just below dose of co2 tank from 5 am to 5pm. Then I air stone at night. Slightly underused recommended fish food once or twice a day. I take no days off. 2/3rd water change and vacuum every 10 days. Perfect numbers and very slow minimal acceptable algae growth on walls to be hardly visibly noticeable. I created my own HOB power filter and pre-filter using a number of materials from amazon sources. I only clean the sponges and not the physical media, squeeze them out in the throw out water that comes out during water change. Aquarium maintenance 101 from a newbie. Use as little substrate as possible to keep plants alive to more easily avoid snails. Clean literally everything before putting into aquarium, better for it to die before going in aquarium than to introduce snails. Scrape the walls of algae at each waterchange.If you get snails, take literally everything out but fish and inverts, and soak it in a low ratio bleach plus water bath for like 20 minutes, this is the only way to kill all pest snails literally. Drain the water to just enough for the fish and inverts to swim and live, then scrub the entire aquarium with a scraper and take out literally anything you can see. Scrape again 3 times. Wipe it all down and make sure all there is you can see is the fish and inverts and clear water. Then wipe again.Add plenty of cycling bacteria from multiple sources you can find on amazon including seachem. Refill the aquarium with the bleach soaked plants decorations subtrate and filter medias. MAKE SURE YOU SOAK IN PLENTY OF DECHLORINATOR AND WATER FOR 20 MINUTES first. None of your plants should die off completely but they will lose and have killed a good amount of their leaves and roots but they should survive and regrow if you fert and change new water and quick cycle with added bacteriaI truly hope this helps. My first year with a fully stocked nano tank has been a lot of time reading and experimenting. The pest snail battle was epic but I've been free for 6 months completely. I win. Oh and didn't lose a fish or invert and plants are beyond original growth. This is with having done zero quarantining or adapting at any point. I also cycled from day one, no precycling.Use a 24 hour light with cycling phases and full K spectrum for plants. It is way easier and effective and worth the minor price increase over standard lights. And it is funAlso add Indian leaves and a UV filterFilter floss = crystal clear water. Chemical filtration is entirely unnecessaryHave had no issues and made zero adjustments in six months everything has been clear and clean, green growth strong, living things have thrived.Electric heater w built in temperature control at 82 degrees for tropical fish and plants

great product, very important for aquatic plants if you use any filtered water, i usually try to fill up my smaller tanks and it’s my pur filter which takes out some important minerals along with a lot of gunk, and it’s nice to be able to add exactly what i need back, i am a little worried with the copper in it for my shrimp so i just do half dosing every other week. if you’re breeding shrimp or just don’t just have a handful of amanos then i’d recommend testing your copper before and after dosing this.

I purchased this for my 100-gallon stock tank that I use to grow water hyacinth in (along with some goldfish). Within a week of using the SeaChem Trace (along with the SeaChem Flourish) I have noticed that the roots of the hyacinth are really starting to grow out. You can see white new roots shooting out all over the plants.I was a bit concerned about how my goldfish would react to these chemicals, but they seem completely unaffected. I would think that if it would be incompatible with fish it would have said so on the bottle. I call this stuff my "Aquatic Miracle Grow"... LOLI also have a few strands of Parrot's Feather and it seems to be responding well to the Trace and Flourish.

I use this product together with Flourish and I did notice a more roots on my plants and lot more healthier looking. I use Flourish one day and the next day I will use trace. The first time I use them both together my water went cloudy I got scared because I have 12 Discus in my tank so I drain the tank 75% and just used one product one day and the other product the next day. So far it seems to work fine with no cloudy water. To sum it up you can get away with just using flourish but if you want to see a good heathy looking plants I would also use it in combination with Trace.

After 2 doses of Advanced Growth and Trace, I have seen red blossom on my needle leaf ladwigia (within 7 days), also roots are growing exceptionally fast. Not sure which Flourish product promoted it.

I can't tell exactly which of Seachem's products my plants love because I use them all and my plants look amazing! Trace elements are a vital part of the aquarium and need to be added in addition to macro and comprehensive fertilizers. I dose on alternating days between this formula and their normal Flourish and macro line, as there is a chance for the metals and nutrients to precipitate out if dosed at the same time.

Seems to work well in my fish tank, my plants are growing steadily. However be aware that this is not cherry shrimp safe as some other comments stated. I put a half cap into my planted shrimp tank thinking it was safe and half of my population died within days. I looked at the ingredients afterwards and noticed the first listed component is copper sulfate. My mistake for not reading the label and description first.Copper itself hasn't proven to be toxic in trace amounts, but it seems "Trace" doesn't exactly add a small amount (high ppm of copper will kill shrimp). Should probably be OK in a bigger tank than mine (5g) where it can be dispersed much thinner.The other tank I used it in (the 46g fish tank mentioned earlier) has glass shrimp in there that seem fine.

These trace elements are vital to helping your plants grow and stay healthy in the aquarium. Using a schedule cocktail of seachem products helps the plants grow to beautify your tank and keep them from wilting and dying. Very good product of great quality. Just be careful not to over do it and to stay on the regiment.